Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Woolly yerba santa

Eriodictyon tomentosum

Woolly yerba santa
Photo: Genevieve K. Walden, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Namaceae (Nam family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
W. California
Climate
subtropical

About

Eriodictyon tomentosum is a species of flowering plant in the family Namaceae known by the common name woolly yerba santa. It is endemic to California, where it grows on the slopes of the central coast ranges.

Where it grows

This shrub can be found only in the California Coast Ranges, where it occurs in grassland and chaparral plant communities.

Other Eriodictyon plants

Indian Knob mountainbalm · Narrowleaf yerba santa · California yerba santa · Lompoc yerba santa · Thickleaf yerba santa · Sessile Leaved Yerba Santa · Pacific yerba santa · Hairy yerba santa · Yerba Santa

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eriodictyon tomentosum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…